I would love to see the redwoods one day. That is an amazing elevation you live at, wow. That sounds awesome, except maybe those spiders though....eeeee….. Well I hadn't thought about not getting sun. I guess that could be a drawback. Where I live now I don't get to see sunsets. The trees block them out. Back when I lived in the tricities the sunsets were magnificent. The sky was so open. The skies would be blazing orange. The sunsets were different every day, some looked like fire, some were purple. Just so beautiful. But where I live now away from the city lights the stars are amazing. That is one drawback of the city is the star light is drowned out by the city lights. Here are some sunset pics from the tricities so you can see what I mean. Hanford sunsets don't play! LoL.

I remember the NUCLEAR sunsets over Phoenix AZ when I was a kid in the 50's! They were stupendous!

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. --H.L. Mencken,

In California, our drought was declared over this year.....finally! But the damage was done; there are millions of dead trees ready to go up in flames.
Every year is a fire year in CAL! It doesn't matter if we had a dry winter or a wet winter!
This last winter was just about average, but the higher elevations got a lot of snow. But we had late rains, so now the grasses are real high, and will dry out by June and the fire danger will be real high!